Rachel Maddow's Blog, page 31

Stephen Colbert’s Emmys speech delivers a poignant message America needed

Stephen Colbert just delivered a much-needed lesson accepting an Emmy for “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

Brazil’s president schools Trump on tariffs, democracy in op-ed for The New York Times

In an op-ed published over the weekend by The New York Times, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended his nation’s sovereignty and denounced Donald Trump’s tariffs as blatant efforts to meddle in his country’s politics.

Stephen Miller pledges vengeance against the left on Charlie Kirk's podcast

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller vowed Monday to use the killing of Charlie Kirk to target a “vast domestic terror movement” of left-wing political organizations that he said without evidence had led to the conservative activist’s assassination last week.

The Fourth Amendment was the framers’ line in the sand. SCOTUS just erased it.

Ali Velshi rips the Supreme Court for its latest shadow docket ruling, green-lighting Trump's L.A. immigration raids and effectively erasing the Fourth Amendment.

Facing consequences, Trump now concerned about tactics that ‘frighten’ foreigners

A post from Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on Sunday — about supposedly not wanting to “frighten” foreign investors and employees — sounded more than a little odd, given his whole agenda.

Why Trump’s math fail on the deadly boat strike was more than just an embarrassing flub

Two weeks after the administration killed suspected drug dealers in international waters, Donald Trump tried to defend the strike. It didn't go well.

New poll points to Trump voters’ tolerance for authoritarian approach to the rule of law

In 2023, nearly a third of Trump voters endorsed having a president "willing to break some rules and laws to set things right." Two years later, it's worse.

As shutdown looms, Democrats are in danger of handing Trump precisely the victory he seeks

President Donald Trump's second term has been built on a series of bluffs: Act like you have a power and some people may end up giving it to you.

Trump’s economy takes a toll on middle-class Americans as his poll numbers on economics fall

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll has Trump’s overall approval rating hovering at 42% and his approval rating on the cost of living at just 30%. MSNBC political analyst Brendan Buck and former Communications Director for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), Michael Hardaway, join Alex Witt to give their insights on the president’s expansion of executive power and the impact of his economic policies on Americans.

What Trump's wildly different responses to two assassinations tell us

Trump's diverging responses to Charlie Kirk's and Melissa Hortman's assassinations tells you about what kind of president he is.